@article{ref1,
title="Mental health of flying cabin crews: depression, anxiety, and stress before and during the CoViD-19 pandemic",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2020",
author="Stadelmann, Daniel and Görlich, Yvonne",
volume="11",
number="",
pages="e581496-e581496",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: Initially, we analyzed relations between the challenging working conditions of flight attendants with symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress. As  the COVID-19 pandemic plunged airlines into an unprecedented crisis, its impact on  the mental health of flying cabin crews became the focus of a second survey. <br><br>METHODS: Flight attendants were surveyed online with DASS-21 in May 2019 (N = 105;  sample 1) and April 2020 (N = 1119; sample 2), complemented with questions about  working conditions (in 2019) and existential fears and fear of job loss (in 2020). <br><br>RESULTS: Sample 1 revealed that symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress highly  correlated with the subjective assessment of working conditions, but not with  objectifiable parameters. Sample 2 showed significant positive correlations between  existential fears and fear of job loss with depression, anxiety and stress. Crew  members, grounded in April 2020, showed significantly higher scores in depression  and stress, while still flying individuals had more clinically relevant symptoms of  anxiety. Mean value comparisons between sample 1 and 2 in DASS-21 revealed a  significant increase in symptoms at the time of crisis with effect sizes of d = 0.63  for depression, d = 0.26 for anxiety, and d = 0.52 for stress. The incidence of  clinically relevant symptoms among the respondents increased from 8 to 23%  (depression), from 6 to 14% (anxiety), and from 8 to 24% (stress). <br><br>CONCLUSION: The  COVID-19 pandemic and associated work restrictions coincide with severe impairment  of mental health of flying cabin crews, consistent with a mental health protecting  function of labor.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2020.581496",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.581496"
}